Macron Promises to Protect French Farmers

President Emmanuel Macron has promised to prevent foreigners from buying up French farmland. The promise came as the centrist leader hosted a lunch for about 1,000 young farmers at the Elysée Palace, an event seen by critics as a bid to buy their goodwill ahead of the annual Paris International Agriculture Fair. “For me, French agricultural lands are strategic investments upon which our sovereignty depends, so we can’t allow hundreds of hectares of land to be bought by foreign...

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